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Steris has just announced the availability of additional information to aid customers in their transition to the new sterilization equipment and process. This includes:
A new website with a number of downloadable tools, including the Certificate of Medical Necessity (or CN) that customers must submit to continue receiving sterilant, accessories and parts throughout the 18-month transition period.

Stephanie Reitz, AP
Politicians long ago discovered the uses of Facebook. East Haven, CT Mayor April Capone Almon found something else there – a constituent who needed her kidney.
Capone Almon, 35, had more than 1,600 friends on Facebook last year when she saw one of them, Carlos Sanchez, post a status update saying his friends and relatives had all been tested and couldn't donate a kidney.

This is the second part of a hip replacement surgery video showing graphic surgical processes and techniques. The intended audience for this video are surgeons interesting in improving their processes for "Anterior Approach" hip replacements, surgeons interested in adopting this approach and adults interested in learning more about this less invasive procedure which typically delivers a far faster recovery time than traditional posterior approach surgeries.

This is the first part of a hip replacement surgery video showing graphic surgical processes and techniques. The intended audience for this video are surgeons interesting in improving their processes for "Anterior Approach" hip replacements, surgeons interested in adopting this approach and adults interested in learning more about this less invasive procedure which typically delivers a far faster recovery time than traditional posterior approach surgeries.

Three is a very important number to Dr. David Samadi, Chief of Robotics and Minimally Invasive Surgery at The Mount Sinai Medical Center. Considered a mystical number, Samadi has incorporated this number in his robotic prostatectomy practice . Having performed 3,000 successful prostate cancer treatments in his work, Samadi's experience is unparalleled.

Beth Rucker, Associated Press Writer
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Almost a year before he was accused in a deadly shooting outside a hospital, Abdo Ibssa violently attacked a stranger he suspected was saying something bad about him in a store, according to a lawyer who filed a lawsuit in the case.

Kathy Barks Hoffman, Associated Press Writer
EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The badly scarred 12-year-old who arrived from Iraq last spring with Army National Guard Maj. David Howell has had quite a year in Michigan—dressing up as Batman for Halloween, playing video games, getting pitching tips from the Detroit Tigers' Justin Verlander and being the ball boy for a high school soccer team.

Consider procedure and diagnosis when choosing facility, researchers advise.
Colon surgery patients are more likely to die if their procedure is performed at a teaching hospital, says a new study.
April 21, 2010
U.S. researchers analyzed data from 115,250 patients who underwent colon resection (removal of a part of the colon) for both cancerous and non-cancerous diseases at 1,045 hospitals in 38 states from 2001 through 2005.

For heart patients, practice refreshes memory and increases knowledge, study finds
April 21, 2010
Giving people slated for heart surgery recordings of their pre-surgery consultations not only increased their knowledge about the procedure and their health but reduced their anxiety and depression as well, a new study has found.

Viking Systems (OTCBB:VKNG) announces that preclinical surgical video created using a Viking Systems' "Next Generation" 3DHD prototype visualization system displayed on a Sony prototype medical grade 3DHD monitor was enthusiastically received during The 12th World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery held at the Gaylord National Hotel in National Harbor, MD held from April 14 - 17, 2010.

WASHINGTON (AP) — He felt like he was suffocating, struggling to breathe despite the bullet hole in his chest.
Shot in the aorta — near where the body's biggest artery leaves the heart — somehow 16-year-old Dimitrios Philliou didn't bleed to death before the ambulance screeched up to the hospital.

With nearly all countries struggling to meet a growing demand for organs, a British group asks how best to boost organ supply.
LONDON (AP) — An influential British medical think tank is tackling the question of how far society should go to boost the number of organ and tissue donors, and is weighing a proposal to pay for body parts.

Titan Medical Inc. (TSX VENTURE: TMD) has selected KUKA Robotics Corporation, a supplier of industrial robots, to supply its Lightweight Robot (LWR) to be integrated with Amadeus, a next-generation robotic surgical system currently under development by the company.
The LWR is a 7-axis jointed-arm robot that performs demanding tasks requiring maximum precision and sensitivity while having a powerful touch that is very close to the motion sequences of the human arm.

A major new study led by one of the nation's most eminent nurse researchers provides compelling new evidence that California's landmark RN-to-patient staffing law reduces patient mortality, assures nurses more time to spend with patients, and substantially promotes retention of experienced RNs.
The study is the latest piece of scientific evidence to bolster the case for increasing RN staffing in hospitals and for limiting the number of patients assigned to a nurse at one time and is being proposed now in pending legislation, the Patient Safety Act (HB3912/SB890), currently before the Massachusetts legislature.

STERIS Corporation announces it has reached an agreement with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on the terms of a consent decree regarding its SYSTEM 1® liquid chemical sterilization system.
Included in the agreement is a Transition Plan with a Rebate Program for current
SYSTEM 1 Customers in the U.